ARMS Nintendo Direct Coming Wednesday 17th May

A new Nintendo Direct presentation arrives on Wednesday, 17th May, providing a deep dive into the upcoming ARMS game for Nintendo Switch. As a bonus, a new trailer for Splatoon 2 will also premiere at the end of the video, so make sure you stick around for everything!

I don’t think Arms will be fun for long. Fighting games need depth like combo complexity, originality like DOA’s counter system etc, or they just become repetitive. This just looks like a fleshed out version of wii sports boxing with a basic grapple block punch triangle. I can’t see the swappable arms bringing much to the table.

It would be great amongst other fun sports games but I don’t think it will stand up on its own. Certainly not at full price.

I hope I’m proven wrong though. Splatoon did a good job of shaking up shooters maybe Ninty will surprise me.